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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]C'mon now how long can young gentrifiers stay young?  This has been going on for atleast 10 years and not a single nary budge.  Really, how hard is it to have Eliot-Hine retooled but what has DCPS done but ignore the gentrifiers outcry and kept it the same.

Sure you buy a house in Ward 6 but theres a family moving into the projects of Ward 6 everyday.  The gentrifiers move in and have a baby and there is the project family moving with 3 to 4 school age children.

So who does DCPS turn to at the moment, it is not rocket science, people?  A school system that has a majority of AA will be the primary focus for the future because the past has shown that our gentrifiers will never catch-up.

[b]It is not that the city doesn't cares but they are not concern because gentrifiers are replacing gentrifiers.[/b] [/quote]

[b]I think the city cares deeply about gentrifiers.  They may have fewer kids, but they provide lots more tax revenue! [/b]

The city also knows that  gentrifiers will literally go out of their way (while staying in DC) to improve their kids' education.  They will trek to a distant  OB school or charter they get into or even move closer once they get in!

So knowing that the city supports more charters (see today's Emma Brown article), why would the city do anything right now to make neighborhood schools more attractive to parents?

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The city sure does care about gentrifiers, and no they are not just replacing other gentrifiers.  It wasn't too long ago that Adams Morgan was considered a bad neighborhood for families, edgy for young people moving to DC for internships.  Fast forward 10 or 12 years and now there are gentrifiers in places no gentrifier had previously even heard of: Shaw, Bloomingdale, Brookland, Petworth, Eckington, Navy Yards...  Dog parks, and bike lanes, and streetcars, oh my![/quote]

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